12mo. xxxii, [2], 146pp, [2]. Title in red and black. Handsomely bound in contemporary richly gilt-tooled green crushed morocco, T.E.G. Heavily sunned. Marbled endpapers, internally clean and crisp.

A handsome copy of Edward Fitzgerald's (1809-1883) translations of stanzas attributed to the eleventh-century Persian poet 'Umar Khayyam (to which much of his own material was added), first published anonymously in 1859.